– We moved to Arkansas
– My brother (Drax as a commenter here) passed away from cancer
– I finished my second novel (Warlock)
– I qualified for my SFWA membership (membership is actually pending right now)
– I got on unemployment, for the first time ever
– They broke ground on our house (should be done in, oh, seven months)

I might start posting more here again now that things have settled down a bit.

As part of my effort to start a career as a writer I am trying to build a list of email addresses of people who are interested in receiving updates about The War Chronicles series. The signup form is here. Yes, I get the irony of me setting up a form to capture other people’s email addresses. 🙂

It’s been over a month since I posted here. Which is ironic because this blog used to be my primary outlet for writing, and now all I do is write, but I never write here.

I have to decide if I’m going to keep this blog going or not. I’ve been struggling with that for years now.

Warrior has sold 327 copies since I put it on the Amazon Kindle store on Jan 18. In the past two weeks it’s gone from a couple sales per day to an average of over 10 per day. In fact I sold 100 of them in just the last week. If that pace keeps up, I’ll be happy.

Warlock (Book II) is well underway. I’ve got 42,000+ words so far and have been averaging about 3,000 words per day. At that rate I’ll hit the 125K mark somewhere in the early to mid April timeframe. Just about when taxes are due. I expect at least a month of edits and proofreading. I haven’t yet decided if I’m going to self-publish again, or if I’m going to try for a traditional publisher once more. A lot will depend on how well Warrior is doing by then.

I’m a bit less than 60 days into my 90 day Kindle Exclusive agreement. When that is up I’ll have to decide whether to do another 90 days or if I want to try Smashwords, Kobo and other self-publishing avenues. The thing is, Amazon is just destroying those options in terms of potential sales.

Not paying much attention to politics these days. It all sucks. I despise the Democrat leadership, but not a whole lot more than I despise the Republican leadership. And there really isn’t any other alternative. The prospect of a Hillary Clinton campaign for President positively nauseates me, but that’s probably where we’re going. Unless Elizabeth Warren can knock her off, then we get the prospect of a female Obama clone whose career was entirely based on lying about her heritage to get into a top university and get a lucrative law position. Sheesh, this country deserves to decline.

The Testing Time has arrived. The world is falling into darkness. Lirak, a young forest-dwelling stone-chipper has become a pawn in the eternal battle of the Gods. Born of an outsider mother, feared by superstitious villagers, distrusted and resented by his own brother, Lirak must fight back an invading army while learning how to control the destructive powers that boil inside him. Lirak’s path from simple stone-age villager to heroic warrior is only the first part of a much longer and more dangerous journey.

Here is the final cover:

And here is the final map:

Dunno if anyone still checks on this blog, but if so, I would love to get your thoughts.